Both for Survival and Preparedness, and for Career angles and the like, -I find these following to be the most Crucial and Important;-

In ruffly a "Most Important on Down of an Order".

my own English, -of course.

Arabic.

Chinese.(Mandarin / Mainland).

Russian.

Japanese.

Chinese. (Cantonese and South China).

Urdu. (Pakistani)(a lot like Indya's Hindi). And/or other major Pakistani Language such as Punjabi or Sindhi.

Indonesian. (also Malaysian is very much another Form of this).

Hindi. (along with some Knowledge and Familiarity with its Relatives and Variations).

Farsi / Persian. (Iran and General Vicinity).

Turkish.

Spanish.

German.

Portuguese. (primarily Brazilian).

French.

Swahili.

Italian.

Korean.

Thai.

Vietnamese.

Tagalog / Pilipino. (the Phillipines).

Languages of former Soviet Central Asia. (Kazahk, etc.).

Burmese.

Ukranian.

Major non-Swahili African Language such as Hausa.

Other European Language(s), -Greek, Polish, Swedish, etc.

Georgian, Armenian, etc.

Ethiopian Amharic.

Esperanto or other major Artificial Language.

Hebrew.

Latin. (along with possibly other major such Language of old).

Your *OWN* Personal Language or Codes that you may care to make up.

Important major "Mid-Level" Languages so far Escaping Mention. (Dutch, Quecha, Finnish, Sinhalese-Ceylon, etc.)


I mean No minimization of our Important, "Beloved", and Long Familiar Spanish and French, -(Especially in that the Bulk of the Spanish speaking World is just South of us, -here in the U.S., -and Spanish is personally my most Beloved of Languages, in and of itself. -French also lesserly so as regards Quebec's Proximity, -and all the other Great and Special things of course revolving about French.), -But lets Frankly Face it!, -on the Far More Immeadiate and Grander Scale of things, -Ones like Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, and Russian are Far More Crucially Important! Keep Spanish and French in our Schools, -but *also* bring these Topmost *Others* into the Curriculum! And while at it there, -Lets learn and come to use, our own English!, -at least Decently Well, too! Many a "Graduate" *can't* even read their own Diploma, -Many too are going to be at an Utter, Absolute Loss!, -if they ever have to Face Arabic Script or Chinese Characters, even more familiar Russian Cyrillic, -in a possible sort of Red Dawn someday! Good Ole Spanish and French just have some Far More Important "Stablemates" nowadays! I now "Depart".